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Sentences handed down for drug convictions, probation violations

Among those recently sentenced in Cheshire County Superior Court in Keene was a man convicted on a handful of drug-dealing charges.

Jeoffrey J. Majoy, 30, whose address is listed in sentencing documents as the Cheshire County jail, pleaded guilty to five felony drug-dealing charges. According to sentencing documents, he sold what was represented to be heroin twice, in late January and early February, and something represented to be crack cocaine thrice, twice in late January and once early the next month. All of the offenses occurred in Keene.

On four of the charges, he received concurrent 12-month jail sentences and was credited for 77 days of time served. On the fifth charge, for selling a substance represented to be heroin in February, he was sentenced to one and a half to three years in N.H. State Prison, all suspended for five years and consecutive to the other sentences. He was levied $434 in fines and penalties on each charge, all suspended for three years, and ordered to pay a total of $300 in restitution to the Keene Police Department. He was also placed on probation for three years.

Majoy also pleaded guilty to a felony charge of reckless conduct with a deadly weapon. According to sentencing documents, he placed a passenger in his vehicle in danger of serious harm in Cheshire County in February by driving at high speeds and failing to stop at stop signs and traffic lights. He was sentenced to 12 months in jail and credited for 77 days of time served. This is concurrent with his four other 12-month sentences.

Others recently sentenced include:

Jessica L. Burns, 35, of Keene pleaded guilty to selling fentanyl, a felony, in Keene in January. She was sentenced to 12 months in jail, all suspended for three years, and credited for 13 days of time served. She was ordered to pay $620 in fines and penalties, all suspended for four years, and $60 in restitution to the Keene Police Department, and she was placed on probation for two years.

She also pleaded guilty to possessing crack cocaine, a felony, in Keene later in January. She was sentenced to one and a half to five years in N.H. State Prison, all suspended for five years and consecutive to the previous sentence. She was levied $620 in fines and penalties, all suspended for four years.

Prosecutors dismissed felony charges of sale of heroin, possession of crack cocaine with intent to sell and possession of crack cocaine.

Alex H. Cartagena, 24, whose address is listed in sentencing documents as the county jail, pleaded guilty to committing simple assault in Keene in February. According to sentencing documents, he hit Shane Kelcey with a tool. He was sentenced to 360 days in jail, with 270 days suspended for five years, and credited for 61 days of time served. He was ordered to pay $384 in restitution to Kelcey and to have no contact with him.

The court imposed a previously suspended probationary period on James Wilbur, 48, of Swanzey. Wilbur pleaded guilty in June 2017 to a misdemeanor charge of theft by unauthorized taking for stealing a Monadnock Humane Society donation jar from Minute Mart in Troy in November 2016. According to sentencing documents, the probation was imposed because he violated the terms of the suspension by leaving the scene of a crash he was involved in. Under the imposed sentence, he will serve one year of probation.

Prosecutors dismissed a misdemeanor charge that accused Wilbur of driving a motor vehicle without its owner’s consent.

Brittney Steele, 27, of Peterborough pleaded guilty to violating her probation in March on an October felony conviction for possessing heroin and fentanyl in Keene in January 2018. She was sentenced to 61 days in jail and credited for 61 days of time served. Sentencing documents do not indicate how she violated her probation.